The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning and another at the end of successive clauses; as, Justice came down from heaven to view the earth; Justice returned to heaven, and left the earth.

A sympodium.

Composed of superposed branches in such a way as to imitate a simple axis; as, a sympodial stem.

An axis or stem produced by dichotomous branching in which one of the branches is regularly developed at the expense of the other, as in the grapevine.

A conference or conversation of philosophers at a banquet; hence, any similar gathering.

The master of a feast.

One engaged with others at a banquet or merrymaking.

A drinking together; a symposium.

A drinking together; a merry feast.

Any affection which accompanies disease; a perceptible change in the body or its functions, which indicates disease, or the kind or phases of disease; as, the causes of disease often lie beyond our sight, but we learn their nature by the symptoms exhibited.

Of or pertaining to symptoms; happening in concurrence with something; being a symptom; indicating the existence of something else.

The doctrine of symptoms; that part of the science of medicine which treats of the symptoms of diseases; semeiology.

Same as Synanthesis.

Of or pertaining to a synagogue.

A congregation or assembly of Jews met for the purpose of worship, or the performance of religious rites.

A contraction of syllables by suppressing some vowel or diphthong at the end of a word, before another vowel or diphthong; as, th' army, for the army.

Imposing reciprocal obligations upon the parties; as, a synallagmatic contract.

Having the outer and middle toes partially united; -- said of certain birds related to the creepers.

Same as Synalepha.

The divided part beyond the pylangium in the aortic trunk of the amphibian heart.

Having the stamens united by their anthers; as, synantherous flowers.

The simultaneous maturity of the anthers and stigmas of a blossom.

Having flowers and leaves which appear at the same time; -- said of certain plants.

A variety of sugar, isomeric with sucrose, found in the tubers of the Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus), in the dahlia, and other Compositae.

A genus of slender, transparent holothurians which have delicate calcareous anchors attached to the dermal plates. See Illustration in Appendix.

A ferment resembling diastase, found in bitter almonds. Cf. Amygdalin, and Emulsin.

One of numerous calcareous processes which extend between, and unite, the adjacent septa of certain corals, especially of the fungian corals.

Joint rule or sovereignty.

A fastening or knitting together; the state of being closely jointed; close union.

Synarthrosis.

Immovable articulation by close union, as in sutures. It sometimes includes symphysial articulations also. See the Note under Articulation, n., 1.

Concurrence of starry position or influence; hence, similarity of condition, fortune, etc., as prefigured by astrological calculation.

A congregation; also, formerly, the Lord's Supper.

A kind of aggregate fruit in which the ovaries cohere in a solid mass, with a slender receptacle, as in the magnolia; also, a similar multiple fruit, as a mulberry.

Same as Syncarp.

Composed of several carpels consolidated into one ovary.

Not capable of being used as a term by itself; -- said of words, as an adverb or preposition.

An immovable articulation in which the union is formed by cartilage.

Symphyseotomy.

A concession made for the purpose of retorting with greater force.

A synchronal thing or event.

Happening at the same time; synchronous.

The concurrence of events in time; simultaneousness.

Of or pertaining to synchronism; arranged according to correspondence in time; as, synchronistic tables.

The act of synchronizing; concurrence of events in respect to time.

To assign to the same date or period of time; as, to synchronize two events of Greek and Roman history.

Contemporaneous chronology.

Happening at the same time; simultaneous.

The concurrence of events in time; synchronism.

A derangement or confusion of any kind, as of words in a sentence, or of humors in the eye.

Curved toward the same side in all directions; -- said of surfaces which in all directions around any point bend away from a tangent plane toward the same side, as the surface of a sphere; -- opposed to anticlastic.

A synclinal fold.

A synclinal fold.

Synclinal.

A mountain range owing its origin to the progress of a geosynclinal, and ending in a catastrophe of displacement and upturning.

Of or pertaining to syncope; resembling syncope.

To contract, as a word, by taking one or more letters or syllables from the middle; as, /Gloster/ is a syncopated form of /Gloucester./

The act of syncopating; the contraction of a word by taking one or more letters or syllables from the middle; syncope.

An elision or retrenchment of one or more letters or syllables from the middle of a word; as, ne'er for never, ev'ry for every.

One who syncopates.

Having united cotyledonous.

Uniting and blending together different systems, as of philosophy, morals, or religion.

Attempted union of principles or parties irreconcilably at variance with each other.

One who attempts to unite principles or parties which are irreconcilably at variance; an adherent of George Calixtus and other Germans of the seventeenth century, who sought to unite or reconcile the Protestant sects with each other and with the Roman Catholics, and thus occasioned a long and violent controversy in the Lutheran church.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, syncretism; as, a syncretistic mixture of the service of Jehovah and the worship of idols.

A figure of speech in which opposite things or persons are compared.

Tissue in which the cell or partition walls are wholly wanting and the cell bodies fused together, so that the tissue consists of a continuous mass of protoplasm in which nuclei are imbedded, as in ordinary striped muscle.

Any bird having syndactilous feet.

Having two or more digits wholly or partly united. See Syndactylism.

Syndactilous.

Having the toes firmly united together for some distance, and without an intermediate web, as the kingfishers; gressorial.

A description of the ligaments; syndesmology.

That part of anatomy which treats of ligaments.

An articulation formed by means of ligaments.

Connecting; conjunctive; as, syndetic words or connectives; syndetic references in a dictionary.

An officer of government, invested with different powers in different countries; a magistrate.

Consisting of, or pert. to, a syndic.

The theory, plan, or practice of trade-union action (originally as advocated and practiced by the French Conf/d/ration G/n/rale du Travail) which aims to abolish the present political and social system by means of the general strike (as distinguished from the local or sectional strike) and direct action of whatever kind (as distinguished from action which takes effect only through the medium of political action) -- direct action including any kind of action that is directly effective, whether it be a simple strike, a peaceful public demonstration, sabotage, or revolutionary violence. By the general strike and direct action syndicalism aims to establish a social system in which the means and processes of production are in the control of local organizations of workers, who are manage them for the common good.

One who advocates or practices syndicalism.

To unite to form a syndicate.

Act or process of syndicating or forming a syndicate.

Concurrence.

Pertaining to the state of pairing together sexually; -- said of animals during periods of procreation and while rearing their offspring.

Since; seeing.

A figure or trope by which a part of a thing is put for the whole (as, fifty sail for fifty ships), or the whole for a part (as, the smiling year for spring), the species for the genus (as, cutthroat for assassin), the genus for the species (as, a creature for a man), the name of the material for the thing made, etc.

Expressed by synecdoche; implying a synecdoche.

By synecdoche.

A disease of the eye, in which the iris adheres to the cornea or to the capsule of the crystalline lens.

A contraction of two syllables into one; synizesis.

Growing on the angles of a stem, as the leaves in some species of Selaginella.

An order of fishes, resembling the Physoclisti, without spines in the dorsal, anal, and ventral fins. It includes the true flying fishes.

The interjunction, or joining, of words in uttering the clauses of sentences.

Same as Synaeresis.

The union, or drawing together into one syllable, of two vowels that are ordinarily separated in syllabification; synecphonesis; -- the opposite of diaeresis.

Working together; cooperating; as, synergetic muscles.

The doctrine or theory, attributed to Melanchthon, that in the regeneration of a human soul there is a cooperation, or joint agency, on the part both of God and of man.

One who holds the doctrine of synergism.

Of or pertaining to synergism.

Combined action the combined healthy action of every organ of a particular system; as, the digestive synergy.

A construction in which adherence to some element in the sense causes a departure from strict syntax, as in /Philip went down to Samaria and preached Christ unto them./

A Linnaean class of plants in which the stamens are united by the anthers.

Having the stamens united by the anthers; of or pertaining to the Syngenesia.

A theory of generation in which each germ is supposed to contain the germs of all subsequent generations; -- the opposite of epigenesis.

A suborder of lophobranch fishes which have an elongated snout and lack the ventral and first dorsal fins. The pipefishes and sea horses are examples.

A writing signed by both or all the parties to a contract or bond.

An obliteration of the pupil of the eye.

Syndesmosis.

See Synochus.

Of or pertaining to synocha; like synocha.

A continuous fever.

A sense organ found in certain sponges. It consists of several filaments, each of which arises from a single cell.

An ecclesiastic council or meeting to consult on church matters.

A tribute in money formerly paid to the bishop or archdeacon, at the time of his Easter visitation, by every parish priest, now made to the ecclesiastical commissioners; a procuration.

Of or pertaining to a synod; transacted in, or authorized by, a synod; as, synodical proceedings or forms.

In a synodical manner; in a synod; by the authority of a synod.

An adherent to a synod.

Having stamens and pistil in the same head, or, in mosses, having antheridia and archegonia on the same receptacle.

Sworn brotherhood; a society in ancient Greece nearly resembling a modern political club.

One of two or more words (commonly words of the same language) which are equivalents of each other; one of two or more words which have very nearly the same signification, and therefore may often be used interchangeably. See under Synonymous.

Synonyms.